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Anthropology

Gwich'in Athabascan Implements History, Manufacture, and Usage According to Reverend David Salmon

O'Brien Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231443, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
202 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 73 halftones, 43 line illus.

The most detailed and well-illustrated study of material culture for any northern Athabascan language group to date, "Gwich'in Athabascan Implements" reproduces pre- and early post-contact tools that are historically important to the Athabaskan peopl...

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Film Studies

Great Movies III

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226182094, ISBN: HB: 9780226182087, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
440 pp., 23x15 cm

Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the "Chicago Sun-Times" for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces,...

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Linguistics

Grammatical Framework Programming with Multilingual Grammars

Ranta Aarne

ISBN: PB: 9781575866260, ISBN: HB: 9781575866277, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2011
340 pp., 23x15 cm

Grammatical Framework is a programming language designed for writing grammars, which has the capability of addressing several languages in parallel. This thorough introduction demonstrates how to write grammars in Grammatical Framework and use them i...

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Culture Studies

Ghetto at the Center of the World Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

Mathews Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226510200, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 30 halftones

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani p...

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Mathematics

Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms

Navas Andres

ISBN: HB: 9780226569512, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line illus.

In recent years scholars from a variety of branches of mathematics have made several significant developments in the theory of group actions".Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms" systematically explores group actions on the simplest closed manifold, the...

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History

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487267, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

In "Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science", David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority,...

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Mathematics

Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions

Farb Benson, Fisher David

ISBN: HB: 9780226237886, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
600 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line illus.

The study of group actions is more than a hundred years old but remains to this day a vibrant and widely studied topic in a variety of mathematic fields. A central development in the last fifty years is the phenomenon of rigidity, whereby one can cla...

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General

Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence Selected Papers

Tarde Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780226789712, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
332 pp., 20.1x13.5 cm

Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his cont...

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Education

Governing Educational Desire Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China

Kipnis Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226437552, ISBN: HB: 9780226437538, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
224 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 16 halftones

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined – until now".Governing Educational Desire" explores the cultural, political, and econo...

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Contemporary Art

Gutai Decentering Modernism

Tiampo Ming

ISBN: PB: 9780226801667, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 69 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Gutai" is the first book in English to examine Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental...

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